Mark Cavendish is looking forward to his support role at the Road World
Championships after being the headline act at the Tour of Britain.

Cavendish claimed his third win of the 2013 Tour of Britain on Sunday, taking his tally in the race to 10 wins since 2007, as Sir Bradley Wiggins completed overall victory.

Now Cavendish, the 2011 world road race champion, will be part of the Great Britain team which will bid to help Tour de France winner Chris Froome become the first man to win the yellow jersey and rainbow jersey in the same year since Greg LeMond in 1989.

"I'm really looking forward to it," Cavendish said.

"I've based my training in the last month around going well at the World Championships.

"I think he (Froome) has got a super good chance. We're going in with that plan. If we didn't think he had a really good chance, we'd be going in with more than one plan.